English
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico comes from Spanish Puerto Rico.
- Spanishc. 1500–presentPuerto Ricoliterally ‘Rich Port’
- Englishearliest quotation 2024same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Spanishc. 1500–presentPuerto Ricoliterally ‘Rich Port’
- Englishearliest quotation 2024same form
Earliest quotation: 2024, Danielle Kurtzleben, Off-color jokes, vitriol take over Trump Madison Square Gard: “He also added, “I love Puerto Rico and vacation…”
The story
Borrowed from Spanish Puerto Rico (literally “Rich Port”). In US English, the name is commonly pronounced and was formerly spelled Porto Rico; many other Spanish Puerto placenames were formerly also anglicized to Porto.
Every English word from Spanish Puerto Rico
Today it means
name A self-governing commonwealth and dependent territory of the United States in the Caribbean.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Spanish Puerto Rico / Puerto Rico